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The light cruiser USS Milwaukee (CL-5) being returned to the U.S. Navy on 16 March 1949. The Soviet crew boarded the passenger ship Molotov, visible alongside.

Milwaukee had been loaned to the USSR in lieu of Italian ships allotted after the Italian surrender that could not be delivered. On 20 April 1944, she was commissioned in the Soviet Navy as Murmansk and performed convoy and patrol duty in the Arctic Ocean for the remainder of the Second World War. Afterward, she became a training ship and participated in the 1948 fleet maneuvers. The Soviets returned the ship on 16 March 1949 and Milwaukee was sold for scrap to American Shipbreakers, in Wilmington, Delaware (USA) on 10 December.
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Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine May 1949, p. 36.
Author U.S. Navy
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